The Fire Next Time

Reactionary government means a government that reacts without thinking.
The middle classes, in shock horror at the events of the last few days, also seem to be reacting without thought.
They see their fellow citizens as ‘scum’, ‘idiots’, ‘illiterates’ or some other, clever, demeaning insult.
They pontificate that the rioters should get a job, do national service or go to prison.
Our ‘media’s ignorance, of the desperate plight of the poor indigenous population is stunning.
As supposedly ‘intelligent, ‘perceptive’ people they should stop and think.
One of the main reasons for these riots is housing.
Since 1980 ‘council housing’ has contracted at a huge rate, for our economy has become completely based on ‘Property credit’.
People became seduced into buying a house and watching it increase, by £500 a week in price, to justify spending £400 of that, on their credit card.
It was an option unavailable to traditional post war working classes, of all racial origin, who remained in ‘council housing.’
In fact their chances were further diminished with the post 1990’s influx of immigrants who, in order for ‘society’ to appear ‘indiscriminate’, ‘fair’ and ‘decent’, were given ‘equal rights’ to the indigenous population.
This meant that councils allocated properties, primarily to those ‘seeking benefit’, unavailable in their country of origin.
In the past 20 years these ‘immigrants’ have dominated the depreciating housing stock, to the point that those indigenous poor ‘British’ of all races, have been told by Mr Cameron that they will not receive Housing Benefit nor council accommodation, till they are thirty-five years old.
This condemns a generation to disillusion.
Their frustration and anger has spilled over into the streets and will not dissipate, because they are called ‘scum’ or ‘illiterates’.
There are deep-seated reasons for their revolt.
History shows that reactionary politics leads to oppression, fascism and the terror of trial and error.
We used to be known as a fair nation and charity begins at home.
Society, government, media etc need to address the fundamental problems, not bury their heads in the sand and ignore the massive class division, these riots illustrate.
As Martin King said prophetically in 1968:
‘The fire next time.’